Re: Laptop Recommendations?

[Benjamin Story <bstory@bullets.net>]

At work I have an HP laptop and Mandrake installed on it fine except
for the crazy USB multiport wireless card, but I got that running with
a kernel recompile.  From what I've seen and heard HP is really making
big strides to certify its equipment with RedHat and Suse.  I'm not
sure where their laptops are in that process, but I know that their
desktops and servers are certified at this point.


On Sun, May 16, 2004 at 12:26:25AM -0000, bja@Illinois.DynDNS.Org wrote:
> I'll be going off to school next year and am looking for laptop
> recommendations. Basically, my only requirements are that it support some
> type of functional UNIX or a compatible system and do it in a completely
> native way (no loading windows drivers through a compat layer; that scares
> the crap out of me) (excluding the 56k modem which is almost never
> supported and I don't plan on using it anyway) and it cost $2,000 or less.
> I've been looking at the 12.1" Apple Powerbook with 768Mb of RAM, Airport
> Extreme (802.11g), and iSight. Any equivilents in x86 land?
> 
> I don't know if I want to use a Mac because I've grown very used to my
> customized KDE with Kontact, Konqueror, Karamba, etc and it seems like a
> waste to buy a Mac and not use OS X (and Yellow Dog doesn't seem to
> support the latest generation of Powerbooks).
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Brandon Adams
> Fresh I, Kettering University
> bja@metawire.org
> 
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